Founding Engineer, Front End and API

Causal

Vision

Would you build a regular API without some sort of well defined contract between the client and server (swagger, graphql, rest, etc)? Of course not, that would be silly. It would be error prone, tedious, hard to coordinate, hard to reason about, not automatable, and a lot of extra work. So why do people build their data and feature infrastructure that way? Soon they won’t, instead they will use Causal.

We're building Causal to solve the most frustrating and intractable problems we've had in building software: crappy, messy data generated by tracking code that's difficult to maintain, code that's so full of old ideas and branches that adding to it is a nightmare, and a general feeling that all the work we were doing to optimize our products might be adding up to nothing.

Our first product is an integrated set of product analytics and feature management tools for deploying, measuring, and optimizing product features. Causal uses a schema first approach to collect and serve data to our customer’s front ends, and takes that data all the way through to their data warehouses. Causal eliminates the tedium and errors normally suffered by data engineers when building and maintaining these processes through automation. With Causal, our customers can move faster and make better decisions about how customers interact with their applications.

About Causal

Causal was founded by veterans of the Personalization and Machine Learning groups at Tripadvisor to solve a problem common in the industry. Jeff was most recently running the machine learning group at Tripadvisor. He is a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits. Alex has extensive experience both in early-stage startups and leading teams at large tech companies. Prior to Causal, he ran multiple platform engineering teams at Tripadvisor. Christina started her career as a consultant. After getting an MBA from Harvard, she worked on the product team at TripAdvisor. Most recently, she ran the product team at Circle.

We are backed by top-tier venture capitalists that seeded DoorDash, Branch, Gusto, Stack Overflow, Venmo, Firebase.

Product overview

Role

• Join Causal and help build the next generation of data and feature infrastructure.

• Work with the founding team and customers to decide on product direction

• Work with the engineering to decide on architectural direction

• Build customer facing web tools and the supporting APIs

• The role leans towards front end and API development, but it’s a startup, so you will still work across the entire stack.

Expectations

• 5+ years experience

• 90% remote, 10% in person. We get together, in Boston, one day every other week.

• Strong coding and implementation skills. Fast but not sloppy.

• Interested in learning new things.

• Interest in building APIs, product/development workflows, developer tools.

• High level of expertise in one or more of the following areas

  • React

  • Typescript

  • GraphQL

  • iOS

  • Android

  • Cloud infrastructure